From <opus@ATHENA.MIT.EDU> Mon May 15 14:49:17 1989
From: <opus@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Date: Wed, 3 May 89 21:36:07 EDT
To: amgreene@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, amdehon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Subject: PC version of TeX...


I have sbtex and dostex.  Sbtex is the one to use, unless you have a
hard drive.  It requires two 360k floppies, and 640k ram.  I also have
a few screen previewers.  I know the cga version works, but I haven't
tested the others.  I have dvieps, but it doesn't seem to work.

Both plain TeX and LaTeX work, depending on whether the proper style
files fit on the disk.

-Dave

From <opus@ATHENA.MIT.EDU> Mon May 15 14:49:32 1989
From: <opus@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Date: Fri, 12 May 89 17:24:11 EDT
To: Andre' DeHon <amdehon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
In-Reply-To: Andre' DeHon's message of Wed, 10 May 89 23:58:28 EDT
Subject: Re: PC version of TeX...


attach priam:mit
look in /priam/mit/opus

I have several files, all in ARC format.  If you don't have arc, I can
give you a copy for the PC, or you can unarc them on athena (VAX
executable in /priam/mit/opus/Arc/arc)

TeX is in sbtex.arc, and there are a few dvi printer drivers in
dviexe.arc.  There is a HP LaserJet driver (DVIJEP), but I don't know
how well it works.

There are a few previewers in cdvi12.arc.  They only work with the 16
standard TeX fonts, and can't load any others (Especially small caps
and LaTeX picture stuff).  However, if you can work around this, they
are very fast for previewing.  Faster than xdvi, in fact.

Don't bother with the stuff in dostex/, since it requires 4.5 meg of
disk space to run correctly.  Or bother, if you have the space.  I
didn't, so I don't know how well it works.

-Dave

